Connect with us

Published

4 months ago

on

Closing out this week’s Green Deals are three different sales from some of our favorite brands featuring some of their newest releases at their lowest rates. First off, we have Anker’s SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale with up to 56% discounts across its power station lineup, with the new C200 DC 60,000mAh Power Bank Station dropping to its $100 low, among many others. There’s also the Valentine’s Day savings we’re seeing from Hiboy’s sale, which is cutting 48% off its EVs, with the upgraded S2 SE Electric Scooter returning to its $300 low, among other returning low prices. Last, but certainly not least, Jackery has launched a special tax season sale with up to $3,100 in up-front discounts on power stations, as well as trade-in savings, select extra 5% off coupons, and up to 30% in tax rebates. Among the offers, the Explorer 2000 v2 is dropping back to its $999 low, with many more notable options from $90. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s second phase of EcoFlow’s sale through the weekend, Samsung’s smart appliance discounts, and more.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

Anker’s SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale drops new C200 DC 60,000mAh power station to return $100 low

Anker has launched its SOLIX Valentine’s Day Sale (also titled the Big Game Day Power Sale) with up to 56% discounts across its power station and solar generator lineup through February 19. One notable inclusion is the brand’s latest C200 DC 60,000mAh Power Bank Station that is dropping down to $99.99 shipped. This newer model usually carries a $170 full price, which we first saw drop to the $100 low during Cyber Monday sales and repeat back at the start of the new year. That low rate is returning here today, giving you $70 in savings for the best price we’ve seen since releasing a few months ago. You’ll also find it matching in price over from the brand’s official Amazon storefront too.

Anker’s SOLIX C200 DC power bank station is a smaller and more compact version of the brand’s new C300 DC and AC models, coming in with a slightly smaller 60,000mAh/192Wh LiFePO4 capacity. It delivers up to 300W of output power to your devices through its five port options (two USB-As, one 140W USB-C, one 15W USB-C, one car port). You can refill the units own battery via three ways, with its 140W USB-C port giving you an 80% charge in 1.3 hours through a wall outlet, or you can utilize up to 100W of solar input or the car port for 80% in 1.6 hours.

You’ll also find the larger 90,000mAh C300 DC and C300 AC models down at $170 and $190 (matched at Amazon) for this sale. Not only are you getting the expanded 90,000mAh LiFePO4 capacity here, but they also come sporting different variations of built-in lights for camping trips. You can get the full rundown on its other capabilities in our launch coverage here.

Limited-time deals:

SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale F2000 solar generator bundles:

SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale F2000 home backup bundles:

SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale C1000 power station deals:

SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale C800 power station deals:

SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale C300 power bank station bundles:

Accessory deals:

You can browse through the entirety of Anker’s SOLIX Valentine’s Day sale on the landing page here, which is where you’ll find the F3800 home backup options. Speaking of the F3800 – if you’re considering the standalone power station or the bundle option with the expansion battery – check out the exclusive low prices that we’ve secured for our readers instead, which will give you up to $2,299 in savings, beating out this sale’s rates.

Hiboy S2 SE e-scooter

Hiboy’s Valentine’s Day sale takes up to 48% off EVs, including new S2 SE e-scooter at $300 low (Save $250)

Hiboy has launched its Valentine’s Day savings with up to 48% discounts across its EV lineup, with the brand’s latest S2 SE Electric Scooter falling to $299.99 shipped for the first time in a sale outside of its New Year’s launch. Without the savings you’d normally have to shell out $550 for this new model, which we saw hitting the market at the top of January at this same rate. The price is getting cut down by 45% here, saving you $250 and upgrading your commute at the lowest price we have seen. It’s standard package is not only matching in price at Amazon, but you can also score it with a seat for just $50 more (with the same option available directly from Hiboy too).

Building upon the popularity of Hiboy’s standard S2 model, the new S2 SE e-scooter comes with a solid array of fresh upgrades at an affordable rate that’s hard to pass up for those on a budget. It’s been given a Q235 steel frame for increased durability alongside a 350W brushless DC motor (peaking at 430W) and a 36V 7.8Ah battery to deliver 19 MPH top speeds and a travel distance up to 17 miles on one full charge.

Riding was smoothed out further thanks to the 10-inch solid front tire to prevent punctures and the 10-inch pneumatic tire in the rear that increases shock absorption – with both tires’ grips on the pavement improving with the 17% width increase too. The improvements aren’t stopping there, as the fender comes 26% wider to prevent water toss-ups while traveling and the steel frame provides 20% more load capacity than its predecessors. Other features include a folding design, LED headlight/taillight, an e-brake/drum brake system that is pretty standard for scooters, and an integrated HD LED display.

More Hiboy S2 series e-scooter discounts:

Other Hiboy e-scooter discounts:

Hiboy e-bike discounts:

Hiboy EV gifts for kids:

Hiboy’s bundle deals:

Hiboy accessory discounts:

Jackery tax season Explorer power station sale

With tax refund season officially here, Jackery is launching a special promotional sale to help you get the most out of your savings, with up to $3,100 in initial discounts alongside trade-in savings (learn more here), some select extra 5% discounts – plus, you can apply for up to 30% in tax rebates too! A notable returning low price is the brand’s Explorer 2000 v2 Portable Power Station at $999 shipped, after clipping the on-page promo coupon. The deal here is continuing Black Friday, Christmas, and New Year trends by cutting 33% off its full $1,499 price tag. During this sale, you’ll be saving $500 on one of the newest units under Jackery’s flag at the lowest rate we have seen anywhere. In a rare upset, this price (as well as many others in this sale) is even beating out Amazon’s $1,299 rate too.

A great well-rounded power station that can handle trips, outdoor yard work and DIY needs, and even some emergency appliance backup, Jackery’s Explorer 2000 v2 packs everything into one affordable unit. Sporting a 2,042Wh LiFePO4 capacity, it pumps out power at up to 2,200W regularly through its seven ports, but can also surge up to 4,400W when needed. Its smaller and lighter size comes courtesy of its exclusive CBT tech and the honeycomb design, while also providing 62 forms of protection while it’s charging and even a silent charging mode to keep noise under 30dB if you’re trying to relax or sleep.

There are four ways to recharge the power station itself, with an 80% battery achieved via a wall outlet in around 66+ minutes – and it also boasts a supercharge feature for last-minute needs that will refill the entire battery in 102+ minutes. Your car’s auxiliary port is also an option taking about 24 hours, or you can invest in some of the solar panels to take advantage of its solar charging capabilities.

***Note. Some of these offers have on-page extra 5% savings that you can take advantage of by using the provided codes. The prices below have not had these additional discounts factored in so be sure to use any you see at checkout to score the maximum discounts!

Jackery solar generators for DIY/outdoor work support:

Jackery power stations for your short trips:

Jackery solar generators for your short trips:

Jackery setups for home backup:

While the above deals are the most notable features, you can also head to the landing page here to browse Jackery’s entire lineup of offers while these savings last.

Best New Year EV deals!

Best new Green Deals landing this week

The savings this week are also continuing to a collection of other markdowns. To the same tune as the offers above, these all help you take a more energy-conscious approach to your routine. Winter means you can lock in even better off-season price cuts on electric tools for the lawn while saving on EVs and tons of other gear.

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

Related Topics:
Continue Reading

Environment

Tesla driverless robotaxi spotted in Austin for the first time, but with trailing car

Published

1 hour ago

on

June 11, 2025

By

Tesla driverless robotaxi spotted in Austin for the first time, but with trailing car

Tesla’s driverless robotaxi has been spotted in Austin for the first time, but it is being followed by a trailing car with a driver.

CEO Elon Musk now says that Tesla aims to “tentatively” start its service on June 22.

Tesla now plans to operate its own small internal fleet of vehicles with dedicated software optimized for a geo-fenced area of Austin and supported by “plenty of teleoperation.”

The company has been discussing the launch of its paid service in June, but as we reported, it only officially began the “testing” phase earlier this week, according to Austin’s official website.

Advertisement – scroll for more content

Musk admitted that Tesla only started testing the system without safety drivers at the end of May.

In comparison, Waymo tested its system, which was already in operation driverless in other cities, for 6 months with safety drivers and 6 months without safety drivers before launching its service in Austin earlier this year.

Now, a Tesla Model Y without a driver was spotted in Austin for the first time:

From the video, we can see that a second Tesla vehicle is trailing the driverless vehicle, likely with a remote teleoperator ready to take control or activate a kill switch.

As we previously reported, Tesla has been building a team of teleoperators to remotely control its vehicles when needed.

Just this week, days before the planned launch of the service, Tesla has posted a new job listing for engineers to build a teleoperation system with as low latency as possible.

Having a trailing car can address the latency problem.

After sharing the video above, Musk highlighted that these are unmodified Model Ys, like the ones that Tesla delivers to customers. This prompted someone to ask when Tesla plans to deliver unsupervised self-driving to customers, as he promised every Tesla vehicle produced since 2016 would be capable of doing.

Musk didn’t confirm it, but he said that the custom software running on those vehicles have about 4 times more parameters than the current version (FSD v13) in customers vehicles and he could see that being deployed in the customer fleet later this year:

It’s a new version of software, but will merge to main branch soon. We have a more advanced model in alpha stage that has ~4X the params, but still requires a lot of polishing. That’s probably ready for deploy in a few months.

As we previously reported, this fleet deployment in Austin is quite a moving of the goal post for Tesla, which has been promising unsupervised self-driving in all vehicles since 2016.

This service is only going to work in a geo-fenced area where Tesla is optimizing its FSD software to perform better, and it is supported by teleoperation, something that can’t be scaled to the customer fleet.

Electrek’s Take

I don’t know why Musk wants to emphasize that Tesla is using the same vehicles it delivers to customers as if it’s a giant advantage over Waymo.

We know that Tesla’s hardware approach is much cheaper than Waymo. That’s not new. The real question has always been about safety and performance.

I can see this program eventually helping FSD progress, but as you can see, Musk is not stating that unsupervised self-driving in customer vehicles will be achieved when the new customer version of FSD, which comes out of this custom software, reaches the market.

Even if this 10x the miles between disengagement in the current version, which would be impressive, Tesla would still only be at about 5,000 miles. That’s behind the competition and nowhere near what’s needed for level 4 unsupervised self-driving.

At this point, I expect Tesla to start admitting that HW4 will not support unsupervised self-driving in customer vehicles by the end of 2026.

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

Continue Reading

Environment

A prototype Porsche Cayenne EV just beat every gas SUV ever in a hillclimb

Published

2 hours ago

on

June 11, 2025

By

A prototype Porsche Cayenne EV just beat every gas SUV ever in a hillclimb

Porsche is preparing to release its Cayenne EV in the next year or so, but that didn’t stop it from taking the car out in secret to a hillclimb meet, where it utterly destroyed the previous course record previously held by a 12-cylinder Bentley Bentayga.

Hillclimbing is a specialized sort of racing where cars start at the bottom of a hill and then race to the top of it. And it’s a type of racing where electric cars do quite well because of their high amounts of instant torque and fast low-end acceleration.

We’ve covered some other hillclimbs before, such as the famous Pike’s Peak hillclimb, where EVs shattered records last year, and where Ford is running an unrecognizably modified Mach-E this year in just a couple weeks. EVs do well here due to the race’s high altitude, which leads to inefficient combustion from gas-powered cars due to low oxygen in the air, which EVs don’t have to worry about.

And hillclimbing is popular in the UK, where courses are much shorter than the brutal 12.42-mile “race to the clouds” at Pike’s Peak. Most UK courses are more like a mile long, give or take.

Advertisement – scroll for more content

One of the most famous in the UK is Goodwood hill climb where an electric “fan car” holds the overall course record and where Ford competed (and won) with its ridiculous 1,400hp electric van.

Another course, part of the British Hill Climb Championship, is Shelsley Walsh, where this last weekend’s news happened. The race was first contested in 1905, with a length of 1,000 yards (910m, .57mi).

So, it’s just a sprint, and it’s a sprint that a Cayenne EV just absolutely destroyed every other car in its class on – even though the car isn’t out yet. It’s expected to get a full unveil later this year, but that didn’t stop Porsche from flexing its muscles ahead of release.

Porsche took a prototype version of its upcoming EV out to Shelsley Walsh, where it was looking to beat a record previously set by the Bentley Bentayga W12, an absolutely bonkers ultra-luxe SUV with a massive 12 cylinder, 6 liter twin-turbo engine capable of producing 600hp.

But that gigantic engine proved to be no challenge for the Cayenne, which crushed the antiquated dino-burner’s record by several seconds.

On such a short lap, records are often set by tenths or hundreds of a second, but the Cayenne EV beat the Bentayga’s 35.53 second record by more than four whole seconds, setting a new time of 31.28. Watch it below (the Cayenne EV’s part starts at 2:36:30, if the deep-link doesnt work):

(*Porsche told us those engine sounds are from another vehicle near the microphone, not from the Cayenne EV itself)

In the video, the Cayenne is extremely well behaved up the course, exhibiting very little body roll for such a large vehicle. This is owing to the low center of gravity characteristic of many EVs, due to the weight of the car being in the battery at the bottom of the vehicle, and to Porsche’s active suspension.

And on such a short run, the instant acceleration of the Porsche gave it a lasting advantage over the hulking Bentayga W12, allowing it to crush the previous record.

The Cayenne EV was driven by Gabriela Jilkova, Porsche’s development driver for its Formula E team. It even beat the production electric car record which was previously held by another Porsche, the Taycan Turbo. That record was 31.43 seconds, so the Cayenne was just able to pip it.

It isn’t, however, the fastest electric vehicle up the hill – that’s currently a 30.46, set in 2018 by Mitch Evans in a Jaguar Formula E car (from an earlier generation – surely the new Gen 3 EVO cars would be even quicker).

As of now, we still have no final numbers on what sort of specs the Porsche Cayenne will have, as the vehicle is still in prototype form and hasn’t gone through homologation. So, Porsche is still figuring it out like the rest of us, but from these results, it looks like they’ve got something good on their hands.

Electrek’s Take

Now this is just one race, and not a particularly famously-contested one. There are surely cars that haven’t run this hill that would beat the Cayenne up it. But 4 seconds is a huge record on such a short course, and is certainly a shot across the bow, such that we can’t wait to see where else Porsche takes this thing and what other gas SUVs it might be able to embarrass.

When I reviewed the 576-hp Macan EV Turbo, I found it to be absurdly, unnecessarily quick.

It also handled very well for a large vehicle (and it is indeed large – almost twice the weight of my own EV, a Tesla Roadster). An SUV is still not a sportscar, but I had no particular misgivings when driving it… except perhaps that maybe it was too powerful, and that I preferred the 4S since I just never knew when I would need the amount of power the Turbo could put down.

So I’m not surprised that its bigger sibling, the Cayenne EV, would also perform extremely well here. Porsche knows how to make a car and how to make it perform well, and somehow they’ve even brought that magic to a vehicle as big as the Cayenne EV.

So, I’m looking forward to a time that I get to bring the Cayenne EV to a Porsche meetup, just like I did with the Macan, and have another dad tell his child “you wanna see the fastest car here? it’s that one.” And it’ll have the records to prove it.

Charge your electric vehicle at home using rooftop solar panels. Find a reliable and competitively priced solar installer near you on EnergySage, for free. They have pre-vetted installers competing for your business, ensuring high-quality solutions and 20-30% savings. It’s free, with no sales calls until you choose an installer. Compare personalized solar quotes online and receive guidance from unbiased Energy Advisers. Get started here. – ad*

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

Continue Reading

Environment

EV prices dipped in May – and Tesla Model Y led the slide

Published

5 hours ago

on

June 10, 2025

By

EV prices dipped in May – and Tesla Model Y led the slide

EV prices Model Y May
New Tesla Model Y; via Tesla.

EVs got a little more affordable in May, and Tesla’s price drop had a lot to do with that. According to new data from Kelley Blue Book, the average transaction price (ATP) for a new EV in May was $57,734. That’s down from $59,123 in April. Year-over-year, that’s a 1.1% drop.

At the same time, incentives are heating up. The average EV incentive in May hit $8,225, or 14.2% of the ATP. That’s more than double the average incentive across the broader auto industry and higher than last May’s 12%. According to Cox Automotive, that makes May the most incentive-heavy month since what Cox Automotive calls the beginning of the modern EV era, which is when EVs passed the 1% market share mark, in 2018.

Tesla’s prices played a big role in this shift. The company’s ATPs dropped 1.5% in May, landing at $55,277. Year-over-year, Tesla prices are down 2.8%.

The Model 3 and the Cybertruck inched up in price in May, but just barely – less than 1%. Every other Tesla model saw prices fall month-over-month. The Model Y, Tesla’s top seller and the most popular EV in the US, dropped 2.9% from April to an average price of $53,895.

Advertisement – scroll for more content

Read more: Cybertruck sales slump as EV prices rise and incentives dry up

If you live in an area that has frequent natural disaster events, and are interested in making your home more resilient to power outages, consider going solar and adding a battery storage system. To make sure you find a trusted, reliable solar installer near you that offers competitive pricing, check out EnergySage, a free service that makes it easy for you to go solar. They have hundreds of pre-vetted solar installers competing for your business, ensuring you get high quality solutions and save 20-30% compared to going it alone. Plus, it’s free to use and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and share your phone number with them.

Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here. –trusted affiliate link*

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

Continue Reading

Trending